Notre Musique

Legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once again poses a number of provocative questions about art, politics, and the nexus point between them in this drama in three acts, "Hell," "Purgatory," and "Paradise." After a collage of film clips illustrate a meditation on the nature of war and ...more

The term "very French" might have been coined to describe Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique. Among those skeptical of the French -- and, with characteristic irony, perhaps even among the French themselves -- a work of art might be described as "very French" if it possesses a certain mixture of abstraction and pretentiousness. Notre Musique has both qualities in spades. Which doesn't mean that a Godard fan or a fan of nonlinear philosophical discourse won't love it; it's just that if you aren't one ...more